The aim of this book is to assess the significance of beauty to the other higher values, namely truth, goodness, and liberation. This is the focus of the last three chapters. The discussion of significance presupposes a knowledge of the nature of beauty in all its orders. Hence the book devotes the first seven chapters for discussing this question. The point of view of the book is Indian, and the treatment of the subject keeps in view the interests of the scholar and the general reader alike.